Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-02-04 Thread sqweek
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: >> Yes, but the content isn't guaranteed to be from a single user. In >> fact, venti has no clue. Change that and it's not venti anymore. > > exactly. but it's important to note that it's crypto hard to guess > somebody else's block. Is it

Re: [9fans] Flash Video

2009-02-04 Thread hiro
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:48 AM, Akshat Kumar wrote: > 2009/2/3 Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com>: >> the original question was about flash video. >> >> many here seem to have interesting ideas, but obviously >> not motivated enough to want to plan/research/read/understand. >> >> two clues: mpeg4

Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-02-04 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
control transfers may read/write 0 bytes. That's not the issue probably. IMHO, it's likely that at some point the driver missed a td and from that point on the endpoint stalled. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 11:57 AM, wrote: >> my P5K-VM machine's pci output is as follows: >> 0.26.0: usb 0c.03

Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-02-04 Thread kokamoto
> control transfers may read/write 0 bytes. > That's not the issue probably. No, I meant kernel tried to write to fd 0, not 0 byte. Kenji

Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-02-04 Thread Francisco J Ballesteros
If I understood your mail, the problem is that buf is 0. That's not always a problem for a usb td. It could be a 0-bytes transfer. Such thing is ok. On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:50 PM, wrote: >> control transfers may read/write 0 bytes. >> That's not the issue probably. > > No, I meant kernel tried

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 boot freezes at usbd...

2009-02-04 Thread kokamoto
You may be facing with the same problem to me.☺ If so, there is no solution now... Kenji --- Begin Message --- Hello, I'm new to plan 9 and I tried installing / starting the live CD on my laptop. It does however get stuck in both situations during booting, at a line saying 'usbd..' and nothing el

Re: [9fans] usb problem of Asus P5K-VM motherboard

2009-02-04 Thread kokamoto
> my P5K-VM machine's pci output is as follows: > 0.26.0: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2937 10 4:c481 32 > 0.26.1: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2938 3 4:c801 32 > 0.26.2: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2939 5 4:c881 32 > 0.29.0: usb 0c.03.00 8086/2934 5 4:c001 32 > 0.29.1: usb

Re: [9fans] Flash Video

2009-02-04 Thread Devon H. O'Dell
2009/2/3 Skip Tavakkolian <9...@9netics.com>: > the original question was about flash video. > > many here seem to have interesting ideas, but obviously > not motivated enough to want to plan/research/read/understand. > > two clues: mpeg4 and rtp I think you mean RTMP. There are a couple of open R

[9fans] Intel 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet (Fiber)

2009-02-04 Thread Tristan Plumb
I've several Intel PRO/1000 XF cards that I would like to use. I remember these cards working before, but they don't now. Looking at etherigbe.c, I see 'intergrate fiber stuff back in' in the todo list. Has anybody looked at this recently and know what would be involved? I can muddle around and try

[9fans] Plan 9 boot freezes at usbd...

2009-02-04 Thread bartvandelft
Hello, I'm new to plan 9 and I tried installing / starting the live CD on my laptop. It does however get stuck in both situations during booting, at a line saying 'usbd..' and nothing else. Could there be anything wrong with like finding the usb-connections? Thanks in advance, Bart

[9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?]

2009-02-04 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:40:01PM +0900, sqweek wrote: > On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 9:54 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > >> Yes, but the content isn't guaranteed to be from a single user. In > >> fact, venti has no clue. Change that and it's not venti anymore. > > > > exactly. but it's important to no

Re: [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?]

2009-02-04 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 11:40:51AM -0500, Nathaniel W Filardo wrote: > entire sun-facing solid angle of the earth into a similarly perfect > computer, we get 2^192/2^32*(4.5 x 10^(-10)) ~~ 2^129 addition operations in Rats, I got overly happy with exponentiation (should be 2^5, not 2^32). Correcti

Re: [9fans] Plan 9 boot freezes at usbd...

2009-02-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
On that note, I have some devices connected via USB: keyboard, mouse, Seagate external HDD, OfficeJet printer. On Live CD boot up, I get several messages from usbd, something like: usbuhci: cleanTD 1/0: Error ... and four or so hex numbers take the place of the elipses. However, my keyboard and

Re: [9fans] Some arithmetic [was: Re: Sources Gone?]

2009-02-04 Thread hiro
> Assuming SHA-1 is indeed cryptographically secure (which is the assumption > made by the venti paper) Well, I read it like it was just sufficiently secure against unintended collisions. It's not intended to encrypt, but to efficiently store data.

Re: [9fans] Intel 82544EI Gigabit Ethernet (Fiber)

2009-02-04 Thread erik quanstrom
On Wed Feb 4 11:34:03 EST 2009, 9p...@imu.li wrote: > I've several Intel PRO/1000 XF cards that I would like to use. I remember > these cards working before, but they don't now. Looking at etherigbe.c, I > see 'intergrate fiber stuff back in' in the todo list. Has anybody looked > at this recently

Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-02-04 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 19:27 +0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > But I do not recall the details and I think Roman is the one who > needs to recap this discussion and bring it to a conclusion. Wow! This ended up being quite a thread ;-) I'll try to comment on a couple of things first, in this sin

Re: [9fans] Sources Gone?

2009-02-04 Thread Roman V. Shaposhnik
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:30 +, Brian L. Stuart wrote: > > information can't leak in principle, but root scores are dangerous, which > > is why open-access venti servers are problematic - if such a score > > *does* happen to leak, then unconditional access to all your data has > > also leaked. >

[9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Uriel
For those that enjoy fixing bugs: % echo foo | sed 's/..a|..b|..c|..d|..e|..f|..g|..h|..i|..j|..k|..l|..m|..n|..o|..p//g' Will crash both native and p9p sed. Yes, I know it is a nonsensical expression, but it is the simplest one that still made it crash, I have lost the original version which wa

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Feb 4, 2009, at 9:28 PM, Uriel wrote: For those that enjoy fixing bugs: % echo foo | sed 's/..a|..b|..c|..d|..e|..f|..g|..h|..i|..j|..k|..l|..m|..n|..o|..p//g' Will crash both native and p9p sed. Yes, I know it is a nonsensical expression, but

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lp = loc2; loc2 = sp - genbuf + linebuf; while(*sp++ = *lp++) At the point of crash, loc2 is a null pointer when it is assigned to lp, so when the while() statement executes, crash. Now to find out why and when loc2 become

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The bug doesn't seem to be in sed. The match() function calls rregexec(), which sets a strucuture that is set to loc2, which is made null for some reason. On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:08 PM, Pietro Gagliardi wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Akshat Kumar
Dear Pietro, Could you please remove the PGP Signatures from your messages? don't do unto us, illegibly ak

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread andrey mirtchovski
also, can you please remove debugging output from 9fans?

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Russ Cox
Sed is fixed in plan9port. $ hg diff sed.c diff -r 478b53880a80 src/cmd/sed.c --- a/src/cmd/sed.c Wed Feb 04 20:12:48 2009 -0800 +++ b/src/cmd/sed.c Wed Feb 04 20:13:08 2009 -0800 @@ -994,7 +994,7 @@ return 0; subexp[0].s.rsp = buf; subexp[0].e.rep = 0; -

Re: [9fans] sed crash

2009-02-04 Thread Pietro Gagliardi
On Feb 4, 2009, at 10:58 PM, andrey mirtchovski wrote: also, can you please remove debugging output from 9fans? What do you mean? Could you paste the raw text data for one of my emails? PGP for Mac Mail hides everything.

[9fans] Vac using gobs of RAM?

2009-02-04 Thread Nathaniel W Filardo
I am running the admittedly somewhat odd vac command > phlogiston% vac \ > -d ... -q \ > -f ... \ > -h ... \ > -e acme/acid/386 -e acme/acid/alpha -e acme/acid/arm \ > -e acme/acid/mips -e acme/acid/power -e acme/bin/386 \ > -e acme/bin/alpha -e acme/bin/arm -e acme/bin/m